The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-06-30

God; and when these shall come at last
with songs and rejoicing, it will take a
very broad banner to hold the names of all
the battlefields on which they got the
victory.
Some years ago roughly-clad, ragged
boy came into my brothers Office in New
York and said: "Mr. Talmage, lend me
S5." My brother said: "Who are your
The boy replied; II am nobody, Lend me
So" "What do you want to do with $5?1
"Well," the boy replied, "my mother is
sick and poor and 1 want to 60 into the
newspaper business, and I shall get q
home for her and Will pay you back" Ny
brother gave him the $5, of course never
expecting to see it again; but he sai6
"When will you pay it2" Il
will pay it in six months, SIR" Time
went by, and one day a lad came into my
brothers Office and said: There's your
$5." "What do you mean? What S5" in
quired my brother. "Dont you remember
that boy came in here six months ago
and wanted to borrow 50 to go into the
newspaper business?" "Oh, yes, l re-
member; are you the lad?" Eyes" he re-
piled, 81 have got along nicely. Ihaye got
a nice home for my mother Cshe is sick
yeti and am as we'll clothed as you are,
and there's your So" Oh, was he not
worth saving? Why, that lad is worth fifty
such boys as l have sometimes seen mov-
ing in elegant circles, never put TO any use
for God or man. Worth saving l go
farther than that and tell you they are not
only worth saving but they are being saved.
One of these lads picked up.
from our streets and sent west
by benevolent society wrote.
east, saying: II am getting along first rate.
l am on probation in the Methodist
Church. l shall be entered as a member
the 1st of next month. l now teach Sum
day-school class of eleven boys. I get
along first rate with it. This is a splendid
country 10 make living in. If the boys
running around the street with q backing
box on their shoulder, or bundle of
parers under their arms, only knew what
high old times we boys have out here, they
wouldn't hesitate about coming west, but
come the first chance they got" So some
by one humane and Christian visitation,
and some by another, are being rescued.
In one reform school, through which 1000
of the little ones passed, 1895 turned out
we'll. In other words, only five of the
1000 turned out badly. There are
thousands of them who, through Christian
societies, have been transplanted to beau
IlIul homes I'LL over lulS Iuulls uuu NutI6 Q
are many who, through the rich grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ, have already won
the crown. A little girl was found in the
streets of Baltimore and taken into one of
the reform societies, and they said TO her:
"What is your name?" She said: "My
name is Mary" "What is your other
name?" She said: "I don't know" So
they took her into the reform society, and
as they did not know her last name they
always called her "Mary Lost" since she
had been picked up out of the street. But
she grew on, and after awhile the Holy
Spirit came to her heart, and she became q
Christian child, and she changed her name;
and when anybody asked her what her
name was she said: at used to be Mary
Lost; but now, since l have become q
Christian, it is Mary Found"
For this vast multitude are we willing to
go forth from this mornings service and
see what we can do, employing all the
agencies I have spoken of for the rectifca-
ton of the poisoned fountains? We live
in beautiful city. The lines have fallen
TO MS in pleasant places and we have a
goodly heritage; and any man who does
not like a residence in Brooklyn must be o
most uncomfortable and unreasonable
man. But, my friends, the material
prosperity of city is not its chief glory.
There may be fine houses and beautiful
streets, and that all be the garniture of a
sepulcher. Some of the most prosperous
cities of the world have gone down; not
one stone left upon another. But city
may lie in ruins long before q tower has
fallen, or a column has crumbled, or q
tomb has been defaced. When in a city
the churches of God are full of cold
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the houses of commerce are the abode of
fraud and unholy traffic; when the streets
are filled with crime unarrested and sin
unenlightened and helplessness unpitied
that city is in ruins, though every
church we're st. Peters and every
moneyed institution were Bank
Of England and every library were
British museum and every house had a
porch like that of Rheims and roof like
that Of Amiens and tower like that of
Antwerp and traceried windows like those
of Freiburg.
My brethren, our pulses beat rapidly the
time away, and soon we shall be gone, and
what we have TO do for the city in which we
live we must do right speedily or never do
it at all In that day when those who have
wrapped themselves in luxuries and de-
spised the poor shall come TO shame and
everlasting contempt, / hope it may be
said of you and me that we gave bread to
the hungry and wiped away the tear of the
orphan and upon the wanderer of the street
we opened the brightness and benediction
of Christian home; and then, through
our fundamentally it shall be known on
earth and in Heaven that Mary Lost became
Mary Found!
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